If your organization has gone beyond handing out agendas annually to the staff in an attempt to become more effective, then it’s time to look at tracking and managing time across the organization. Where is time being used that’s not productive for either the organiztion or the individual? Only with a centralized timesheet systemm can this be answered. Here are some tips on getting such a system selected and implemented.

Communications is at the heart of what makes a project manager effective and much has been written on the subject. The tools available to the modern project manager however provide a wealth of options on how to be effective at creating a project communications plan.

Project Management systems are changing profoundly as the users evolve from highly specialized full-time schedulers to a much broader audience. Workflow combined with online forms technology will be at the heart of this change.

Too many project managers bite off more than they can chew when creating their plan for an Enterprise Project Management deployment. Going for little victories is always lower risk and a higher probability of ultimately reaching the business goals that the system should be supporting.

Written originally in the tech crash that followed Y2K, this article describes many of the challenges and opportunities facing the project management industry in today’s economy. The article is reposted here from its original publication in Computing Canada Magazine.